Season 1 of Skylanders Academy was so much fun. I watched it with the kids and they loved it. We cannot wait for season 2 to come to news today is about season 3! Season 2’s release date hasn’t even been announced yet, but we are getting news that Season 3 was already greenlit for 2018. That is great news! Here is the full press release for this great info. Continue reading Season 3 Coming for Skylanders Academy
I was sent a copy of John Rocoo’s book, Blizzard. I knew one thing about John and that was that he wrote and illustrated this book about the Blizzard of ’78. I was four when that happened and we lived right over the Rhode Island border, close to where the story takes place. I remember being in our house with no electricity, a two year old sister and a brand new puppy. I’m sure that my Mom remembers that blizzard much more vividly than the rest of us because she had to deal with the new puppy and two kids under 5. My Dad was out helping to plow the snow. I remember being told that if I even step out of the house I’d get lost in a snow drift.
Reading this book to the kids made me think back to that Blizzard as much as my four year old self remembered. Mostly it was things that people told me and no so much what we did during that time. I can’t remember it all that clearly. John is older than me and when the Blizzard of 78 hit he was old enough to be outside and help. Blizzard is a story of how a young boy helped his neighborhood during that Blizzard.
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When I woke up this afternoon I saw that the back yard already had a bit of snow in it ready for shoveling. I’m working from home tonight and it was weird going to bed only to wake up to work at home. I guess it doesn’t feel as weird to do it if I have a destination. But, I got up and shoveled a bit, made sure that all of the shovels and the sled were by the back door for easy access. No sense in having them all in the garage (That is where I store all my cardboard that needs to be recycled as well as all things I don’t use at the moment, I did get the car in there last year, though)
So this big winter storm, Nemo. Is headed out way and as I write this we are in the throes of his temper tantrum. The lights are flickering. The wind is whipping and there are flashes of blue and green lightning happening as well. Tomorrow is going to be fun to try and dig out of this place.
It snowed like crazy here today. It snowed so much that work declared that anyone who could work from home should do that. I am one such person and so I stayed home. This was a good thing because between Erik, Dad and I it took us a few hours to clear out the driveway.
Our morning started with Church and Eva was in rare form. She wanted to sing today. So she sang Alleluia… loudly. We are so lucky to be in the Church that we are in because Fr. Dave completely rolled with it. He said that the choir might have a new member but she only knew Alleluia so far. Eva wasn’t to be upstaged or limited because she then sang Hosanna later. She was cracking up everyone around us and since it was Church it was even harder not to laugh. She turned to me and said, “When I sing Hosanna you are supposed to laugh”. So hard not to laugh. An older woman behind me grabbed my shoulders and shook me as she laughing and told me that I need to get Eva on TV. Oh boy, we are in trouble.